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Definition of racist in English:

racist

noun

A person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another.

‘I had a fear of being called a racist’

‘I think how proud I am of her for going from fearing racists to wanting to fight them.’

‘With criminals, terrorists, racists etc etc using the Internet to bypass the police, the police will be increasingly frustrated in its attempts to bring them to justice.’

‘The chef is a foul-mouthed racist.’

‘He railed against being called a racist, a charge leveled at him off and on throughout his career.’

‘"You may not be a racist but the people who vote for you are," I said to him.’

‘It is time for strong action to be taken to show the racists that their chanting and form of supporting is not welcome.’

‘Moreover, racists do not need any assistance or prompting in pursuing their malevolent agenda.’

‘She offers words of comfort, but only brash American Dan (Bonar Colleano) actually challenges the racist.’

‘Moreover, such discrimination played into the hands of racists who argued less that races were unequal than that national and racial differences were objective and insurmountable and that assimilation would never work, in order to justify their argument that immigrants should be sent home.’

‘Of these people, misguided as they may be, few are actual racists.’

‘They're racists because they are driven by hate, and whatever they do, that viciousness just bubbles over.’

‘The basic charge is that these men, critics of capitalism, were racists, anti-Semites, and elitists.’

‘Racism is an indelible part of Travis's makeup, but it is important to acknowledge that this is a film about a racist rather than a racist film.’

‘I'm not saying that he is a racist, as I know he was only joking, but it's fascinating to me how many people around us, who say they aren't racist, are against interracial relationships.’

‘He found most to be uneducated racists with little to offer a discerning and spiritually hungry young man.’

‘Cinema itself was a popular entertainment by 1904, the year of the novel's setting, and its traces can also be found, not just in the formal experiments of the novel, but in scenes such as the chasing of advertising canvasser Leopold Bloom by a one-eyed racist and a "mangy mongrel."’

‘Baker elicits a stirring performance from Brenda De Banzie as Nell, whose transformation from typical housewife and mother to snarling racist is the centrepiece of the drama.’

‘Breton, Surrealism's leader and a past master of character assassination, claimed in the final issue of Minotaure that Dali was a self-confessed racist, and Dali chose not to respond.’